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A study of the dynamics of conversion and identity in the life and works of Jonathan Edwards.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A study of the dynamics of conversion and identity in the life and works of Jonathan Edwards./
Author:	Burman, Ronald Sidney.
Description:	286 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: A, page: 0442.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International50-02A.
Subject:	Biography. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoeng/servlet/advanced?query=8910978

A study of the dynamics of conversion and identity in the life and works of Jonathan Edwards.
Burman, Ronald Sidney.

A study of the dynamics of conversion and identity in the life and works of Jonathan Edwards. - 286 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 50-02, Section: A, page: 0442.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Minnesota, 1988.

In this study, Jonathan Edwards's conversion becomes the groundwork for the resolution of his identity crisis. Employing analytical tools from social history, psychology of personality, religious philosophy, and stylistic analysis, the work traces the influences which shaped Edward's personality and his religious philosophy. The investigation reveals a person who was shaped by this family and religious background and who, in turn, took on the shaping of his own self-concept from his own religious philosophy.Subjects--Topical Terms:

531296
Biography.

A study of the dynamics of conversion and identity in the life and works of Jonathan Edwards.
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520 $a In this study, Jonathan Edwards's conversion becomes the groundwork for the resolution of his identity crisis. Employing analytical tools from social history, psychology of personality, religious philosophy, and stylistic analysis, the work traces the influences which shaped Edward's personality and his religious philosophy. The investigation reveals a person who was shaped by this family and religious background and who, in turn, took on the shaping of his own self-concept from his own religious philosophy.
520 $a This study reviews the tenets of eighteenth-century American Puritanism and the morphology and conversion, and then scrutinizes evangelical child rearing as practiced by Edwards's parents, especially their determined breaking of the child's will. The will-breaking appropriately conditioned the son for the necessary attitude toward God and salvation, so that years later a conversion might develop. The childhood conditioning related to a host of pressures on young Edwards: familial, social, psychological, and spiritual--all eventually producing in him a Puritan identity crisis, one resolved through an extended experience with holiness and divine beauty.
520 $a Edward's Spiritual Autobiography displays stages of crisis and conversion. After an internal resolution of the crisis, Edwards underwent an extended resolution to become a true follower of Christ. Edwards unconsciously subsumed the parental powers which shaped his personality and, through an intricate positioning process, psychologically and spiritually, pleased his father with a conversion. The psycho-spiritual actions of subsumption contain elements of the erotic and hinge on shifts in sexual roles and models prevalent in Edwards's time. His struggle for his own Puritan identity reveals the dynamics of achieving mystical ecstacy through alternations between self-deprecation (utter humility) and unutterable joy in glorification of God, the all-powerful and wise male diety. Most of the Spiritual Autobiography creates an aesthetic realization, and artistic process in itself, and a statement of an applied experience of spiritual beauty, all of which conclude in his firm conviction that "GOD should govern the World, and order all Things according to his own Pleasure; and I rejoiced in it, that GOD reigned, and that his Will was done."
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